Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.