No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.