Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.