"A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour."

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."

"A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist."

"The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife."

"Life is just one damned thing after another."

"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

"Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections."

"In moderate doses melancholy can be strangley comforting, darkly sweet; it can by providing contrast, give an exquisitely sharp edge to happiness, especially to pleasures of the flesh."

"Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality."

"Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you."

"Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery."