One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.