Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than …

'I can never bring myself to believe it, John,' said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney, of Silverbridge.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

I am better than my reputation.