Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.