How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.

Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.