To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.