I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

...The silent reminiscence of hardships departed, is sweeter than the presence of delight.

Genius is full of trash.

In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.

The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.