Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!