A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.