Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.

Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States--first,murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.