You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.

I think we need to develop a powerful dose of tolerance to understand each other’s humanness. None of us is perfect.

African American women actively contested white constructions of black female labor.

Good philosophy is always hate speech to evil doers.

…but it is in despair that the most burning pleasures occur…

Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.

So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.

Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.

...when truths disappear, they leave behind blank spaces, and that is also dangerous.

We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.