Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.