This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it it wishes and goes as God wills if Satan mounts it it wishes and goes as Satan wills Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

I learn from thinking about the future what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

If I studied all my life I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

They took their meals together and it was remarked on such occasions when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

I understand by this passion the union of desire friendship and tenderness which is inflamed by a single female which prefers her to the rest of her sex and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.