"He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number."

"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."

"The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves."

"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."

"Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed."

"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."

"If you have one foot in tomorrow and one foot in yesterday, you're bound to find yourself pissing on today."

"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them."

"But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions."