Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and truly laid.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge.

Finding the cutest guy in A.A. is like finding the cutest loony in the bin.

When the balance is restored, people get hurt.

Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?

Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think.