Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

I hear you have abolitionists here. We have a few in Illinois, but we shot one the other day.

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

Patience is also a form of action.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

I'm a lifelong Disney nut.

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

Leadership is not achieved by an individual. Leadership is bestowed by the group.