The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

The people of one county can not be indifferent to the welfare of the people in another county.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

God can be seen Even by the poorest fool, But not by the self-styled, God-arguing Intellectual giants.

Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me.