I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased; it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

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

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.