No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

Chastity - you can carry it too far.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations