If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born.

We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.