Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon crimes yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon Himself; and finally with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship Him!