Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

The average man don't like trouble and danger.

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.

It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles