If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

One thing I do know, and that is, that neither hope, nor fear, belief, nor denial, can change the fact. It is as it is, and it will be as it must be.

There is in all artists a little of the vagabond.

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.

It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving