A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.