It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.