Favorite quotes

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G.

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

I’m going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. - S.I.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can’t ignore it, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh at it; if you cant laugh at it, it’s probably deserved.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one’s real thoughts.