It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?