The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.

I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.