And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.

A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true