"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."

"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplici…"

"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."