They did not know it was impossible so they did it

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

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

A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.