We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.