Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right