Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.