Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.