To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

Humor is the good natured side of a truth.