I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts.

You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.