It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.