Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite.

I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.