"Genius, like gold and precious stones,is chiefly..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.”

“It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.”

“Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.”

“The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.”

“A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.”

“Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.”

“Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.”

“Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.”

“Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?”