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"Indecision is like a stepchild: if he doesn't wash his hands he is called dirty if he does he is wasting the water."

"Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and overlook the motive and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer."

"Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin."

"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are."

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing."

"Every man in the world is better than some one else. And not as good as some one else."

"In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it."

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."

"I'm not the heroic type really. I was beaten up by Quakers."

"A person's reputation is a mixture of what his friends enemies and relatives say behind his back."