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

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.