When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders .

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.