When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of his manners.
We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence
The strongest pressure in the world can be friendly pressure.
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money, but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.
Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.
Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.
I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.
Though men pride themselves on their great actions, often they are not the result of any great design, but of chance.
Never cut what you can untie.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
I am the State.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.
My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.