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

But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit.

I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.