It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.