The Amen of nature is always a flower.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...