The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.