The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.