I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.

If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.