For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.