The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

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

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.

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society.