I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves.

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

A man may have no bad habits and have worse

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.