I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

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