By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!

The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.