The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don’t dare to assert themselves.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

The widder eats by a bell; she goes to bed by abell; she gits up by a bell—everything’s so awful reg’lar a body can’t stand it.

The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first .

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.

There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.