There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

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

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible.

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that are forever blowing through one's mind.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.