I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.

Militarism has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations. The single art of war makes progress at the expense of all the arts of peace.

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

It is not important what others think about you

She was invisible. Forgettable. Forgotten.

She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)

I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.

Anesthesia is quite remarkable. Its lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.

Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.

Success is when persistence meets preparation.

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.