Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

It were not best that we should all think alike.

There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.