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.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.