Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.