I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.

When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you "know it all", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.