“The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.”

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

“Great men’s errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men’s truths.”

“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”

“Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.”

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.”

“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”

“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”

“‘Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.”