Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.