"When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is a little better than a beast."

"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings."

"What's done cannot be undone."

"Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water."

"I understand a fury in your words,But not the words."

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones."

"For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice."

"The passions are the only orators that always persuade."

"PICKANINNY, n. The young of the _Procyanthropos_, or _Americanus dominans_. It is small, black and charged with political fatalities."

"The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway."

"Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity."

"She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table."