Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.