Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Surfeits of happiness are fatal.
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
To turn an obstacle to one's advantage is a great step towards victory.
My sister says she never seems to get it together . . . either her rear looks good or her face does.
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
You will suffer and you will hurt. You will have joy and you will have peace.
There are trees that seem to die at the end of autumn. There are also the evergreens.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.