...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

Tough times teach trust.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.