"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."

"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it."

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them."

"If universal charity prevailed, Earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable."

"We was robbed!"

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars"

"The stability of the whole is guaranteed by the instability of its parts."

"The perfect man of action, is the suicide."

"As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators."

"I don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood."