The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.