No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.