Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.

God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

The world doesn't owe you anything. It was here first.