Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit.

Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.