To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
Humility is attentive patience.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.