On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.