"There is no sin greater than ignorance."

"There's no jealousy in the grave."

"He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."

"They copied all they could follow but they couldn't copy my mind so I left them sweating and stealing a year and a half behind."

"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."

"If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty secondsa€? worth of distance runa€” Yours is the Earth and everything thata€?s in it, Anda€”youa€?ll be a Man, my son!"

"I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things."

"The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason."

"'A penny for your thoughts?' 'A dollar for your death.'"

"Blessed be the meek, for they shall inherit six feet of the earth."

"MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more than flesh and blood can bear."

"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience."