Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

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

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

The Irish are a fair people – they never speak well of one another

I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.