I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.