Kindness is a language herd by deaf men and felt by blind men.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

Do right and you will be conspicuous.

In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering I have endured in its presence, & partly because I want to love it and can't.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.