Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.