Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.
Doesn’t make any difference who we are or what we are, there’s always somebody to look down on.
It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.
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.
Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
God’s noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.
The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman’s methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate.
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.
Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself.
It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you’re young just so you’ll have the strength to break them when you’re old.
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased; it always sounds well – In God We Trust. I don’t believe it would sound any better if it were true.
Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.
There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.
A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.
Jesus died to save men – a small thing for an immortal to do – and didn’t save many, anyway. But if he had been damned for the race, that would have been act of a size proper to a god, and would have saved the whole race.
You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient ‘people say.’