Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

I am not now That which I have been.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Effective action is always unjust.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.