When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

the more I know about people, the better I like my dogs.

Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.