An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial.

The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.

Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar.