I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.