Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man 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.