I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey.