"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."

"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."

"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

"Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed."

"All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad."

"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it."

"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore."

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."

"People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness."

"New Jersey needs a hero. Bon Jovi does not count."

"Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie."

"A love that can last forever takes but a second to come about."