I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.