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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence.

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.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.