Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.