God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.