All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance. Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.