Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Doing something with the public in mind is doing something without your own mind.

The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.

Wisdom usually grows up on us like calluses when we are old, gnarled and bent.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.