No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

....honest men are few when it comes to themselves.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.

All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.