"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?"

"If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate."

"Life is just one damned thing after another."

"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

"If you suffer, thank God! -- it is a sure sign that you are alive."

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing."

"There is no such thing as 'fun for the whole family.'"

"The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us."

"Curiosity was a form of lust, a wandering cupidity of the eye and the mind."

"Without any inhibitions of any kind I make it quite clear that Australia looks to America, free of any pangs as to our traditional links or kinship with the United Kingdom."

"I and my public understand each other very well; it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear."

"There is no sin except stupidity."