All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions.

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.