Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.