I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.