We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.