I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place when Asahel fell down and died stood still.

if this night is all we have, we'll let sunrise wait for us.

Nothing succeeds like success.

so let it be written--so let it be done.

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always.

When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite...You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.

I never exaggerate. I just remember big.

Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As a matter of fact, a dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion constitutionality is no match with compassion.

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.