I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

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

When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.