Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

I was born with Halley's Comet and I expect to die upon its return