When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

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

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.