We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.