"He's an honest man - you could..." - Quote by Earl Wilson

“Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.”

“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.”

“Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.”

“The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.”

“Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.”

“In a promise, what you thought, and not what you said, is always to be considered.”

“Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.”

“These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.”

“The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.”