Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality