"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist."

"Ia€?d like to be the person I could have been but never was."

"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."

"All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it."

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else."

"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."

"The drug that heals our sorrows forgetfulness."

"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."

"Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement."

"Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

"'All say, 'How hard it is to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."