I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.