Love makes fools of us all, big and little.

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her heart?

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

If God wills that I die, then I die. No power on earth can change that.

Pennsylvania the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

Nice friendship is like the breathing air, you will never see it but you will always feel its presence.