The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.