I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

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.

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.