When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.

Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.