The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

Joy is the best of wine.

trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.