That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
A jug fills drop by drop.
An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.
I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Be that self which one truly is.
Dare to risk public criticism.
Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
