Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

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.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me