True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'