Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

People in this world are not often logical.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

In order to have enough freedom, it is necessary to have too much.

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. ... The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.