The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?