The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true--humor.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.