Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?

Talent without tact is only half talent.

A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."

Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas.