"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."

"I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other."

"What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance."

"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."

"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion."

"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."

"Fill your mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart."

"Tax reform means 'Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree.'"

"Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it."

"Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought."

"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day."

"The effect of one upright individual is incalculable."