You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

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

If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, "Where is the best place to go to?" He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society.