We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.