Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.