Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for certain that just ain't true." Thinking that you know the future.

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.