It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter.

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.