There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

Be good and you will be lonely.

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.