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.

To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

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.

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