The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

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.