"Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."

"There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know."

"Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence."

"IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment."

"LECTURER, n. One with his hand in your pocket, his tongue in your ear and his faith in your patience."

"PANTHEISM, n. The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything."

"It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants."

"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost."

"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."

"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated."

"I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin."

"Criminal court is where bad pople are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges In family court, where good people are at their worst."