The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.