Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

Some people grumble because roses have thorns. Be thankful instead that thorns have roses.

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

Born is a Cellar, . . . and living in a Garret.

Heaven, no. I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.

'Tis not antiquity, nor author, That makes truth truth, altho' time's daughter.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Get back, Jack.

As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it."

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms.

Aspire to inspire before you expire.

The church-going bell.