I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.