It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.