"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle."

"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character."

"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."

"Though old the thought and oft expressed, 'Tis his at last who says it best."

"conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."

"The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done."

"Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense."

"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."