The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.
Mark TwainWhose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.
Mark TwainFor all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.
Mark TwainThe easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.
Mark Twain