The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.