He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.