Life is one long process of getting tired.
God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.