I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.