I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.