The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.