History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.