Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.