Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.

In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation-and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain. We all know the air can be navigated-therefore, hurry up your sails and bladders-satisfy us-let us have peace.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.