Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

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.