At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

Tough times teach trust.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.