“When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

I do not know what I think until I write it.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Whisky is liquid sunshine.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again. Only this time, more wisely.

The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly!

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

When you feel like you’ve reached your limit, it’s only the beginning.

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.