There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself especially how you choose to think about your situation.

If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.