Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.