Do you suppose that I should have lived as long as I have if I had moved in the sphere of public life, and conducting myself in that sphere like an honorable man, had always upheld the cause of right, and conscientiously set this end above all other things? Not by a very long way, gentlemen; neither would any other man.

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.

No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.