“ Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. ”

“ Happiness lies first of all in health. ”

“ A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. ”

“ Romance like a ghost escapes touching it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. ”

“ Nature makes woman to be won and men to win. ”

“ The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten. ”

“ Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper! ”

“ Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind. ”

“ Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. ”

“ The test of civilization is its estimate of women. ”