Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.