Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.

There is no accounting for human beings.

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.

If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.