We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws, or its songs either.

Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent - then he would have eaten the serpent.

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his heart no man much respects himself.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.