My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving 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.

All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.

It was like I couldn't think of any words. Now I can think of about nine million." "How many words are in the English language?""Not the point.

There is no such thing as magic. Just that which you do not understand.

The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.

The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how I see life.

Study the past if you want to define the future.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

We all come from the same root, but the leaves are all different.

Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.