"The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life."

"#3530. That which does not appear to exist is to be regarded as if it did not exist."

"Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons."

"Intelligence is nothing without delight."

"Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."

"I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans."

"Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative."

"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."

"Oh, that I had wings like a dove!"

"A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised."

"Type faces--like people's faces--have distinctive features indicating aspects of character"

"A fool judges people by the presents they give him."