"No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures."

"I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."

"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble."

"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords."

"Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned."

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."

"A word to the wise is enough."

"Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world."

"He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure."

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."

"When he followed the instincts which God had transmitted to him from his ancestry of beasts of prey, he called it sin and asked God to forgive him."

"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever."