We are more conscious that a person is in the wrong when the wrong concerns ourselves.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Jesus Christ is Jesus Christ.

If you can dream it up, you can team it up.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

The role of the vice president is to break ties in the Senate and inquire daily into the health of the president.

None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.

We are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.