The surest method against scandal is live it down in well-doing.

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

My poor are my best patients. God pays for them.

Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by.

There are no days more full than those we go back to.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions

I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

I'm not planning to jump off a bridge with no bungee.

I don't have to be good because they think I'm going to be good.

Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy.