To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

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.

Whatever you say, say it with conviction