A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.

Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.

Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.

Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.

The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.