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

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!