Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
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.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Nothing is black or white.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
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 idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.
The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.
Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.
No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that in his heart which is capable of responding to it.
