There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.

There is a skeleton in every house.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.