"The very thought of the Diety, Is as bright, effulgent daybeams."

"Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors."

"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant."

"No one ever stated their troubles As lightly as they might."

"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."

"Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses."

"The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!"

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"Grub first, then ethics."

"I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath."

"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."

"George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise."