To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

The best of us would rather be popular than right.

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.