Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

If all men were rich, all men would be poor.

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.