It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.