We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.