How my achievements mock me!

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

The best way out is always through.

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.