"In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out."

"There is so much time and so little to do; strike that, reverse it."

"Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary."

"To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so."

"The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb."

"I'm not going to bed after all. Somebody around here hath murdered sleep. Good for him."

"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."

"Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself."

"The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you."

"il faut laisser du temps au temps (you have to give time time - approximate translation)"

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."

"No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for."