"The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly."

"We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them."

"Everything starts as somebody's daydream."

"We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire."

"We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all."

"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

"Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points."

"Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard."

"Without discipline, there's no life at all."