Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity and summon the genie and command him to crown her with power and greatness and bring to her feet the hoarded treasures of the earth.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.