It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?

I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.