Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!
Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Jests that give pains are not jests.
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.
An idea is salvation by imagination
Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
