When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.