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I have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened

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Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man....more

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I followed the other Experiment around, yesterday afternoon, at a distance, to see what it might be for, if I could. But I was not able to make [it] o...more

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

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My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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Never let your education interfere with your learning.

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Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

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Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to last much longer. There's a plenty of signs. He is ge...more

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Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

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Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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In statesmanship get formalities right never mind about the moralities.

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I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

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Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he mus...more