Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.
I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.
What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Chastity the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.
