"The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

"I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from."

"If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being."

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones."

"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."

"Genius is childhood recaptured."

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."

"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most."

"'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'"

"No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves."