The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.

To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

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.