The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.