[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

When angry, count to a hundred.