In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.