It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job.

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

Men are like bank accounts. The more money, the more interest they generate.