A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.
I could forgive the boy, now, if he’d committed a million sins!
I deal with temptation by yielding to it.
When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.
He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.
I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.
You can go to heaven if you want. I’d rather stay in Bermuda.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
And what is a man without energy? Nothing – nothing at all.
The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.
You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do.
What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
We have the best government that money can buy.
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.