The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
Never accept a drink from a urologist.
We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
That which costs little is less valued.
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.