He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves the members of any tribe.

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.