I have gay friends who are more conservative than most of my conservative friends.
To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.
Ancient simplicity is gone. . . the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.
For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.
In life it is training rather than birth which counts.
No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.
The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.
There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told.
Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.
By that sin fell the angels.