"I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

"If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle."

"You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid."

"Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy."

"The kingdom of God or nothing."

"But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."

"A wife and a promissory note are never lost (they will allways find you)"

"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry."