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

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.