Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

Everything human is pathetic

What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.