"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."

"The people's good is the highest law."

"Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine."

"The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct."

"We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition."

"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."

"Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner."

"I used to be a lawyer, but now I am a reformed character."

"I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?"

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?"

"Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead."

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand."