There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it.

Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.