People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. [If youth but knew, if old age but could.]

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

Yield to Temptation ... it may not pass your way again.

Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ances

We seldom repent talking too little, but very often talking too much.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.

If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

I've touch'd the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. I shall fall, Like a bright exhalation in the evening And no man see me more.

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.