Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

Your friends may love you in private but your enemies will hate you in public.

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.