The government is merely a servant – merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.
Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.
I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God’s fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.
Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
Humor is tragedy plus time.
High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.
Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.
Homely truth is unpalatable.
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.
Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.
I am only human, although I regret it.
Humor is the good natured side of a truth.
If you can’t get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare.
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.