To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.

The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.