I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing.