Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

A person preaches well that lives well.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Common sense is not so common.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.