"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."

"A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other."

"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable."

"There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed."

"Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people."

"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."

"It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth."

"If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun."

"Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'"

"Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home."

"Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness."