In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.