“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”

Yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Wine is bottled poetry.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good.

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

But to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.