"I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough."

"The human being is a machine. An automatic machine. It does not reason. It merely acts upon the impulse of the moment."

"The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for."

"What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it."

"I have a perfectly trained conscience, and it is a great comfort to me. It never bothers me in any way."