The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

Congress: America's only true criminal class.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.