Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.