Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

Progress is the mother of problems.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.