"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil."

"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue."

"Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason."

"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."

"To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal."

"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."

"This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!"