To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.

God creates the animals, man creates himself.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.