Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation.

Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.