A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.