I want to be all used up when I die.

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.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.