Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze!

Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward.

How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors?

Jesus loves the little children, All the children of the world. Red and yellow, black and white. They are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world.

Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fin

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.

I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older.

I love you, Katie. You might not be ready to say those words now, and maybe you'll never be able to say them, but that doesn't change how I feel about you.

We can solve world peace and world famine.

I was a victim; I don't dwell on it.

I'm an easy date, as someone would say!