Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.