If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

It's a great kindness to trust people with a secret. They feel so important while telling it.

Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.

The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.