"Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."

"I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."

"The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another"

"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill."

"Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know."

"The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century."

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

"I avow myself the partisan of truth alone."

"Freedom has a way of destroying things."

"You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television."