That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Anger keeps us down and hinders us from moving forward. Its power is strengthened by our longing for justice.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

And I'll know my song well before I start singing

The letters in 'Brace Beemer' can be arranged to spell 'Embrace Beer.'

I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments.

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

Maybe that's why people take pictures of themselves, to avoid being described.

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.