If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.