If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

I don't want no better book than what your face is.

We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.