He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.