“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”

“Good and great are seldom in the same man. ”

“There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”

“When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.”

“If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”

“This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.”

“Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.”