The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

Travel is fatal to bigotry.

The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo.

That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is "hogwash"