Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

In God We Trust. It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings. It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased; it always sounds well - In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.