Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.