When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Loyalty to the country always; loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination