Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.