I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.

Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again!

Wives often object to life insurance, widows never do.

Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor.

The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. .

Monuments of the safety with which errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

In a cottage I live, and the cot of content, Where a few little rooms for ambition too low, Are furnish'd as plain as a patriarch's tent, With all for convenience, but nothing for show: Like Robinson Crusoe's, both peaceful and pleasant, By industry stor'd, like the hive of a bee; And the peer who looks down with contempt on a peasant. Can ne'er be look'd up to with envy by me.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Caesarism is democracy without liberty.

Personality is a mask you believe in.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 4.

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

In America there are two classes of travel -- first class, and with children.