There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.

Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.

To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

The fact is that I loved being in England.

Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.