Security will produce danger.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
There isn’t a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Revolutions go not backward.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Kings are not born they are made by universal hallucination.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.
