Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.