We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion; that those who are so unwilling to quit the world will soon be driven from it; and that it is therefore in their interest to retire while there yet remain a few hours of nobler employments.

Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.