All I care to know about a man is that he is a human being... he can't be any worse.

Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had been taken in the first place, the world would have been made right, and this ceaseless improving and repairing would not be necessary now. But if you hurry a world or a house, you are nearly sure to find out by and by that you have left out a towhead, or a broom-closet, or some other little convenience, here and there, which has got to be supplied, no matter how much expense or vexation it may cost.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth.