I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Never say more than is necessary.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

People who avoid their fears also avoid their power.

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

For most people, language is our primary interface with each other and with the external world.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.

To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church.

The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.