Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

Nothing is black or white.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.