Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.