If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Freedom is from within.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

That which costs little is less valued.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.