It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

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

I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.

It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

I am only human, although I regret it.