All generalizations are false, including this one.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

Bridgeport?" Said I. "Camelot," Said he.