It is by the fortune of God that in our country we have three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the prudence never to practise either of them.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.