I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.