Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Debate is the death of conversation.

What I’m looking for is a blessing that’s not in disguise.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.