Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect

In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

Silence is the safest response for all the contradiction that arises from impertinence, vulgarity, or envy.

The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

Suicides pay the world a bad compliment. Indeed, it may so happen that the world has been beforehand with them in incivility. Granted. Even then the retaliation is at their own expense.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

A business needs a character and an identity, just like a person and just like a person it needs to have a Voice.

If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower’.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

Speed takes a little bit of getting used to, but rules have to be followed. At any speed, the more you run, the more you get used to it.

Substantial proportions of the population did not see health as the most important thing in life - and these were more likely to be people with more, rather than less, education.

Having departed from your house, turn not back; for the furies will be your attendants.