All good things arrive unto them that wait--and don't die in the meantime.
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Always obey your parents when they are present.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Murder is sometimes punished, free speech always.
Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
On the whole, it is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
We keep on turning [the kaleidoscope of ideas] and making new combinations...; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.
We ought never to do wrong when people are looking.
What I have done I have done, because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn’t have done it.
Why, you simple creatures, the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.
