When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.