Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions .

Morals are an acquirement—like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis—no man is born with them.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.