"Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind."

"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle."

"Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory."

"Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom."

"I think people really marry far too much it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness."

"A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States."

"If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes."

"A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short."