To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.