My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

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.

It is the Creator´s Grand Army, and he is the Commander-in-Chief... With these facts before you, now try to guess man´s chiefest pet name for this ferocious Commander-in-Chief? I will save you the trouble but you must not laugh. It is Our Father in Heaven.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.