That favorite subject, Myself.

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..

Patience is a virtue as they say and listening is an exercise in patience.

Violence is formed by the scarcity of nature, and will stay with us as long as we live in scarcity.

those which are produced from causes are not produced. they do not have an inherent nature of production. those which depend on causes are said to be empty

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.