"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

"General principles should not be based on exceptional cases."

"That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity."

"FREEBOOTER, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude."

"GLUTTON, n. A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia."

"If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain."

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread."

"I just need enough to tide me over until I need more."

"A detective digs around in the garbage of people's lives. A novelist invents people and then digs around in their garbage."

"The sense of death is most in apprehension; and the poor beetle, that we tread upon, in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies."