We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results