Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.