The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Improving the human condition takes little effort

To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows is true.

Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.

It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised - and it should be.

That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.

Washington is a place where people have always been suspect of style and overt sexuality. Too much preening signals that you're not up late studying cap-and-trade agreements.

The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes. (On wives)

The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all!