How long can you be cute?
Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.
Great men are not always wise.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.
To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage.
Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.
Let's face it, there's lots of spoiled kids out there . . . because you can't spank Grandma.
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.
Caesar had perished from the world of men Had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.
Of all the people in the world, those who want the most are those who have the most.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.