A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me...it's the parts that I do.

Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race - and of ours - sexual intercourse!It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

Sometimes people do get hurt