"It is wonderful to me that old..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.”

“Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.”

“I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect.”

“Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.”

“People don't think of writers as sex objects. The women who write to me and suggest that we ought to have sex usually turn out to be, like, eighty. And their letters always end with, "Just joking."”

“You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's fun. You have to be a realist, so you try to look for roles that are within the age you are.”

“It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.”

“Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't.”

“Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.”