Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!