You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

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

It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.