“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”

“A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.”

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”

“Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.”

“I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.”

“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.”

“The best of all lost arts is honesty”