Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.