If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.
A Man in Business must put up many Affronts, if he loves his own Quiet.
The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
All mankind love a lover.
It is easy – terribly easy – to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man’s spirit is devil’s work.
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly.
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.
For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
