Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

Conviction is the conscience of intellect.