"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."

"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

"The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later."

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."

"The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence."

"I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals."

"All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad."

"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."

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

"MAYONNAISE, n. One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion."

"They punish you for all your virtues. They forgive you entirely--your mistakes."