Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

Morality is not respectability.

Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.