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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Health is not simply the absence of sickness.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.