Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.
Gawd knows, and 'E won't split on a pal.
If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong.
Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
I didn't want to pray to God 'cause I didn't want him to know where I was.
No one can help you in holding a good job except Old Man You.
Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.
At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers anybody else to rail at me.
I don't want to be patronizing . . . that means "talking down."
Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
The voice of the people is the voice of God.