I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall...
I saw few die of hunger of eating a hundred thousand.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults or resolution...
For having lived long I have experienced many instances of being obliged by...
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Hunger is the best pickle.
Those who govern having much business on their hands do not generally like...
Honesty is the best policy.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Beauty and folly are old companions.
The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Marriage is the most natural state of man and... the state in which you will...
Anger is never without a reason but seldom with a good one.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
I write in the morning from about eight till noon and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day which my wife has happily typed up for me.
