The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

The real yellow peril: Gold.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.