Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

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

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.