There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.