When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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

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

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?