"Hardly a man takes a half-hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, 'What's the news?' as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. Some give him the news as if t…"

"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."

"The very best thing, of course, is to have a good laugh. But if you can't have that, a good cry is not bad either."

"No man ever had a more agreeable dwelling place than this. It was a proper palace, a fit abode for a king."

"Law never made men a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice."