Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.