The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects .

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.