“Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.”

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.

A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion but rather to know it.

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

If you value a man’s regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper – and despise it.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder.

Modesty and unselfishness – these are the virtues which men praise – and pass by.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

This love for everyday things, part natural from the wide eye of Infancy, part a literary calculation

Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

You’re every single fantasy I’ve ever had.

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

Instead of working out three times a week, I do something physical, like a one-hour walk everyday.

You don’t have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way

Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.

He (Lou Gehrig) just went out and did his job every day.