Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat.
- Notebook, 1894

There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.