If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.

It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.