A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in w ...

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact a ...

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact a ...

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Give us the luxuries of life and we'll dispense with the necessaries.

I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.