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.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Talent without work is useless, thank God

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.