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.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.