To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it.

Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide --that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life --are alike forbidden.