My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

The unkind words that we said and the unkind deeds that we did will haunt us one day!

Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.

The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

This is ridiculous. I look like the Games Workshop version of a Jedi Knight.

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.

When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.