A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

But the truth is the highest consideration.

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.