...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.

It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.