All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.