Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock with it, it is become a sneaking villainy that ought to hang and keep on hanging its sudden possessors until evil-doers should conclude that the safest plan was to never claim to have it until they came by it legitimately. The very calibre of the people the lawyers most frequently try to save by the insanity subterfuge ought to laugh the plea out of the courts, one would think.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

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