women love with their imagination and men with their senses.

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

The government's like a mule, it's slow and it's sure; it's slow to turn, and it's sure to turn the way you don't want it.

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.