How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

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.

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.