What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

All human rules are more or less idiotic.

The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

If true, rarely beautiful. If beautiful, rarely true.

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.