Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

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.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.