Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

There is no bore like a clever bore.