"If you can't appreciate what you've got, then you had better get what you can appreciate."

"What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness."

"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."

"We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists."

"He who can, does. He who cannot teaches."

"I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going."

"Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come."

"I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself."

"Intelligence is nothing without delight."

"Avoid falsehoods like the plague except in matters of taxation, which do not count, since here your are not lying to take someone else's goods, but to prevent your own from being unjustly seized."

"I am always afraid of your 'something shall be done.'"

"The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."