Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.