Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.

I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

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