The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong.

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.