It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.