That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

Let us save the tomorrows for work.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Sometimes we are too close to the scene, to see clearly. We "know" ourselves so well that we cannot see how we are perceived by others. Our opinion of ourselves is only "one" opinion and it may not be the truth.

Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.