What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.