It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.