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

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

Man proposes, but God blocks the game.

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.