I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.
The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
I was born modest not all over but in spots.
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and su...
To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?
It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.