"Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings."

"Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else."

"You have delighted us long enough."

"Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side."

"No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with."

"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."

"If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil."

"Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else."

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world."

"I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know."

"I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS."

"HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime."