A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.