"It was the schoolboy who said, 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so.'"

"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."

"A classic-something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."

"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."

"Be good and you will be lonesome."

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

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

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

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