I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.

Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours.

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.