I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."