Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. There is no feeling of brotherhood among these people. Indeed, they always resent it when I call them brother. To show how far their ungenerosity can carry them, I will state that I offered to let Prof. H--y publish my great theory as his own discovery; I even begged him to do it; I even proposed to print it myself as his theory. Instead of thanking me, he said that if I tried to fasten that theory on him he would sue me for slander.

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.