Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.