I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.