The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.