"Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest."

“I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared... We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude... The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the disposition of public money. We are endeavoring to reduce the government to the practice of rigid economy to avoid burdening the people.”

“What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.”

“What must be shall be.”

“People who have babies tell me I will know a love that is beyond anything I can imagine, and a joy that is indescribable. Love and joy? That sounds horrifying. I have no way of knowing whether I can handle either of those. I'm much better with need and fear. They are what ground me.”

“The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.”

“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.”

Source : Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) "On Being Idle"

“The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.”

“Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.”