Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

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.

Common sense is not so common.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.