"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."

"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."

"Anybody who thinks of going to bed before 12 o'clock is a scoundrel."

"Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest."

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."

"You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid."

"History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history."

"If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?"

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

"It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living."

"Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."

"Do not fight verbosity with words: speech is given to all, intelligence to few."