A wanton waste of projectiles.

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.

A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.