God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

How slow and still the time did drag along.

I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.