I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.

The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting.

The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose.

I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.