"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?"

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."

"The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife."

"In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it."

"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive."

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing."

"In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make."

"Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make it a doozy."

"A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth."

"There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right."

"No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation."

"Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest."