None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par.

But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.