He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.