This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or the...

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior.

Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.

I suppose you've heard all those wicked stories about me. Well I've lived my life as it came and I've done bloody marvels with a bad hand.

Repentance is for little children.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

The world's shortest sermon: "When in doubt... don't!"

A gentle Quaker hearing a strange noise in his house one night got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend ' he said...

We should have no regrets. ... The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.

Life is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may ... meet with great misfortunes.

Since luck's a nine days' wonder wait their end.

All our interior world is reality - and that perhaps more so than our apparent world.

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert it...

The race to which we belong is the most arrogant and rapacious the most exclusive and indomitable in history. All other races have been its enemies or its victims.

If you can't bite don't show your teeth.

Shake a bridle over a Yorkshireman's grave and he'll rise and steal a horse.

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.