Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

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

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

When a man holds his tongue it does not signify much. But when a woman dispenses with the office of the mighty member, when she sheathed her natural weapon at a trying moment, it means that she trusts to still more formidable enginery; to tears it may be, a solvent more powerful than that with which Hannibal softened the alpine rocks.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.