To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!

Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.