Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

The rapid progress of the sciences makes me sorry, at times, that I was born so soon. Imagine the power that man will have over matter, a few hundred years from now. We may learn how to remove gravity from large masses, and float them over great distances. Agriculture will double its produce with less labor. All diseases will surely be cured... even old age. If only the moral sciences could be improved as well. Perhaps men would cease to be wolves to one another... and human beings could learn to be human.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.