Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.

Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?