Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.

Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

The heart has no wrinkles.

We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.

I dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.

I know of no sorrow greater than that occasioned by a delay of the post.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

If you want to succeed you must make your own opportunities as you go.

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up.

Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.

People and their religions don't affect me.

The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the mainstream.

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.

Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.

I get inspired by creativity, when people are together. You know what I mean, there's a certain synergy when people work together.

A lot of fights in my life have been avoided through confidence and demeanor, so that's pretty masculine also.