Friendship: A ship big enough for two in fair weather, but only one in foul.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.

The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.

My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.

Contentment: The smother of invention.

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

...Go live ITM." ITM?" In the Mo," Beth elaborated.

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

Don't be negative. It shows on your face.

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.