"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."

"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"If universal charity prevailed, Earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable."

"Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms."

"Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent."

"Eloquence is in the assembly, not merely in the speaker."

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."

"Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it."

"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."

"I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it."