Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142.