Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.