Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.