I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

Never be a minion, always be an owner.

You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

Never tell anyone what you are going to do till you've done it.

Law! What do I care about the law? Ain't I got the power?

I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

There is no friendship in trade.

I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so.

I have been insane on the subject of money-making all my life.

It is not according to my mode of doing things, to bring a suit against a man that I have the power in my own hands to punish.

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.

A hammer with flowers is still a hammer for the nail!

To be a first partaker is to understand the principles needed

Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.

Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

It's weird for me to try and write punk songs - I'm almost scared of it.

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

It will go away... The stuff in your head. Little by little.

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals