If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?