You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is.

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

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is he…

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to every…

Ma'am, simple question: How do you take your meat?

Cursed be all those on land and sea who eat their fill, cursed be all those who starve yet raise no hand in protest, cursed be all the bread, the wine, the mea…