I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. I don't know anything that mars good literature so completely as too mu… - Mark Twain

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

In the matter of diet I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.