A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

When you find yourself surrounded by sane people excited about your idea and lending support, you realize, perhaps, you are not as crazy as you think you are

He's smaller than me, did you see him? He looked like a noodle next to me.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

A contemporary poet has characterized this sense of the personality of art and of the impersonality of science in these words,-'Art is myself; science is ourselves. '

That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.

How much 'ego' do you need? Just enough so that you don't step in front of a bus.

Tax reform has been used as a crutch, as a smokescreen and as candy coating for the hard choices that have to be made.