Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.