I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

There is no accounting for human beings.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.