[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.