The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.