I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.