Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)

Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

The best thing about being God would be making the heads.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

We change for the good so long as good exists around us.

I just like streetwear. I've always been a fan of Saint Laurent because I like how their jeans fit on me, but as far as high fashion, I don't wear too much high fashion.