You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.

It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ... Yet these nonentities, by the intellectual laziness of men in general ... are generally obeyed as a matter of duty (and) assumed to have a kind of wisdom that is superior to ordinary wisdom.