Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.