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

Sometimes people do get hurt

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.