Society and the World

I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around .

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.