The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.