To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.