Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.

An honest politician is an oxymoron.

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!