It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.

No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.