While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name.

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.