We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.