The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.