While history is much more than a record of magnified personal encounters, it also remains rooted in individual personalities.

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.

A waist is a terrible thing to mind.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Do I contradict myself?<br> Very well then I contradict myself,<br> (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.