Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.