It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been.