The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!