"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."

"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."

"'Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.'"

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then?"