If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.