I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.