Quotes

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world -- and never will.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Patriotism is merely a religion--love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.

Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought.

Spiritual wants and instincts are as various in the human family as are physical appetites, complexions, and features, and a man is only at his best, morally, when he is equipped with the religious garment whose color and shape and size most nicely accomodate themselves to the spiritual complexion, angularities, and stature of the individual who wears it.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so.

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

After a few months’ acquaintance with European “coffee,” one’s mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Our culture today confuses great attention and great success, assuming them to be the same thing.

But depth is where the gold is buried. And you have to stay committed to something and go deep to dig it up.