If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.