"Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed."

"Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth."

"When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves."

"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free."

"We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school."

"I'm not sure I've even got the brains to be President."

"So much is a man worth as he esteems himself."

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

"What's infamy matter when you get to keep your fortune?"

"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal."