The duties of all public officers are, or at least admit of being made, so plain and simple that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance.

The poor have no choice but to be honest. The rich can afford to be dishonest.

I'm not a body, I'm a mind.

Life is too short to be anything but happy.

The truth is, I don't know where my ideas come from. What I do know is that they come when I'm not trying to think of them.