God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.