Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!

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.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.