Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost.

God bless us, every one!

There is something good in all weathers. If it doesn't happen to be good for my work today, it's good for some other man's today... and will come around for me tomorrow.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.