My reputation grows with every failure.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Morality is not respectability.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.