Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

When congress is in session no American is safe.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction .

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.