The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.