"I am responsible only to God and history."

"You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered."

"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."

"What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage."

"God is not in need of anything, but all things are in need of him."

"Persistence plus no dignity equals success."

"What men call gallantry and gods adultery Is much more common where the climate's sultry."

"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."

"You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me that I do not have."

"Most exciting ideas are not important. Most important ideas are not exciting. Not every problem has a solution. Every solution has side effects."

"The important thing is: how much less you think of the body, of yourself as matter-as dead, dull, insentient matter; how much more you think of yourself as shining immortal being."

"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good."