Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

Beauty is a perilous gift.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.