Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance.

There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.

I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career.