I don't want no better book than what your face is.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them in rotation (there are only two or three thousand of them), stick to it, commit two or three every day, and by and by you will be proof against them. When you are through you will be proof against all sins and morally perfect. You will be vaccinated against every possible commission of them. This is the only way.

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.