I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.