He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.