The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?