You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

Many a truth is told in jest.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Me volví loco, con largos intervalos de horrible cordura.

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

all I loved, I loved alone.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

There are some secrets that do not permit themselves to be told.

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.