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.

Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.

Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.