My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

To be busy is man's only happiness.

The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.