No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.