Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

The cost of living hasn't effected its popularity.

...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!