Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

I would rather go to bed with Lillian Russell stark naked than Ulysses S Grant in full military regalia.

We are all beggars, each in his own way.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.