We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

Books are the liberated spirits of men.

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.