What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells us also that if we wish to accomplish a particular thing then we need to increase our level of desire for that thing and to create or seek out the opportunities and right environment for it to happen without fail.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.