Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.