I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.