“He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.”

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

All things come round to him who will but wait.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

No human endeavour can ever be wholly good… it must always have a cost.

If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I’ve already justified buying seven coats!

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don’t have anything against that.

Culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, “And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.

When a guy takes off his coat, he’s not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!