To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.