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

You can find in a text whatever you bring, if you will stand between it and the mirror of your imagination. You may not see your ears, but they will be there.

Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor that you could to-day.

It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.