Faith is believing things you know aint true

All gods are better than their reputation.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.