A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
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.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.