“The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.”

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

A man’s mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.

After money in the bank, a grudge is the next best thing.

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God.

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor.

Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable.

Travel with the same woman in a railway car for twelve hours, and you will have written her down in your own mind in quite other language than that of love.

I have sometimes thought that there is no being so venomous, so bloodthirsty as a professed philanthropist.

Taken altogether, Washington as a city is most unsatisfactory, and falls more grievously short of the thing attempted than any other of the great undertakings of which I have seen anything in the United States.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.

The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.

A man who would tell me that I am pretty, unless he is over seventy, ought to be kicked out of the room. But a man who can’t show me that he thinks me so without saying a word about it, is a lout.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

Dopers become convinced they’ve hidden their stash so well a cop won’t find it. They’re always wrong.

And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe.

Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.

I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.

We must become the United States of America that represents every community, that represents every individual.