The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

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.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.

A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.