My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

But time has set its maggot on their track.

My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.