"Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread."

"I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money."

"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."

"There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing."

"In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living."

"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."

"The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion."

"God's finger touched him, and he slept."