"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."

"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

"When there are monsters there are miracles."

"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

"People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it."

"Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for."

"Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other."

"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do."

"Actuated by the most glorious cause that mankind ever fought in, I am determined to defend this post to the very last extremity."

"I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me."

"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing."

"'Reality' is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes."