Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad--but whiskey!

An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the Sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing

Boy, can't you feel the ghosts of a century and a half of great thinkers, especially Twain?

You know, Eric, I could have sworn I heard a goat bleating while I was working in the slype yesterday evening.
I expect the Dean had separated it from the sheep, Eric said solemnly. Isn't that what clergy are for?