It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .