"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

"Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that."

"The basis for optimism is sheer terror."

"The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!"

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

"There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope."

"I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one."

"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."

"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

"Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel."

"You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company."