“If if's and and's were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinkers.”

“Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.”

“My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.”

“CHARLES. And the courts have declared that your judges were full of corruption and cozenage, fraud and malice. JOAN. Not they. They were as honest a lot of poor fools as ever burned their betters.”

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....”

“Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.”

“Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.”