There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing.

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.