"Our pains are no excuse for slandering the world."

"When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."

"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."

"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another."

"Innocence more often than not is a piece of good fortune rather than a virtue."

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't."

"He who says, 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,' has not been hit by a dictionary."

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."

"Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?"

"Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff."

"France is like a great compass, which ever way they point to, go the complete opposite direction and you'll be fine."

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."