Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Make up your mind to be happy.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.