All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Let man be true and every god a liar.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.