It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'