A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.

If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.