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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!