"No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature."

"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping."

"When it's all over, it's not who you were. . . it's whether you made a difference."

"Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people."

"Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third."

"My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair."

"'Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent."

"PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of conquerors."

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for?"

"Do not speak of repulsive matters at table."

"I know that my Redeemer liveth."

"The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know."