To succeed in other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do. - Mark Twain

Citizenship? We have none! In place of it we teach patriotism which Samuel Johnson said a hundred and forty or a hundred and fifty years ago was the last refuge of the scoundrel -- and I believe that he was right. I remember when I was a boy and I heard repeated time and time again the phrase, 'My country, right or wrong, my country!' How absolutely absurd is such an idea. How absolutely absurd to teach this idea to the youth of the country.

I started out alone to seek adventures. You don't really have to seek them—that is nothing but a phrase—they come to you.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others—his last breath.