We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.
The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.
They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.