The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.

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.

Plant seeds of kindness and watch your blessings flow abundantly

Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

That never goes over big with your wife. I will be a very good husband for a change.

So if you feel as if you feel too much, well then you are not alone. May these words find you like a friend.

When I would go on stage I would start to feel that the eyes that watching me weren't kind. And it took me a while to realize that those eyes were my own eyes.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

Jesus cares more about desire than about competence

You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.

Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.