Youth is wasted on the young.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
An honest man is always a child.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Recognize the ego for what it is: a collective dysfunction, the insanity of the human mind.
People die of fright and live of confidence.
A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Wit and Humor – if any difference, it is in duration – lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage – the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
Letting go is not giving up.
Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
