It must be so, for miracles are ceased And therefore we must needs admit the means How things are perfected.

High noon behind the tamarisks, the sun is hot above us-- As at home the Christmas Day is breaking wan, They will drink our healths at dinner, those who tell us how they love us, And forget us till another year be gone!

If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.

Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.

There are no whole truths. All truths are half truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the south melting.

The grave's the market place.

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desire.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

Worry is the darkroom in which 'negatives' are developed.

Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.