“In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.”

“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”