It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.