If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

She is deceitful as the calm that precedes the hurricane, smooth as the water on the verge of the cataract, and beautiful as the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the storm; but, like the mirage in the desert, she tantalizes us with a delusion that distance creates, and that contiguity destroys.

It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.