Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.