When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

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

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.