It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. "Give them to others"-that's my motto.

The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.