The price of Justice is eternal publicity.

I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them, they might as well cut bread and butter. Unless you give at least 45 minutes of careful, fatiguing reflection upon what you are reading, your minutes are chiefly wasted.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I rather like it myself. I feel it is to be the chief thing that differentiates me from the cat by the fire.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.