Life is too short to drink bad wine.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

The solution of every problem is another problem

Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.