Sanity is very rare; every man almost and every woman has a dash of madness.
Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.
The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
America is another name for opportunity.
A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.