It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.