she: Before we got married, you told me you were well-off. he: I was, and I didn't know it.
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.
The great cathedral space which was childhood.
General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life ... "I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too."
It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as trifle.
I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter.
Let us eat and drink: for tomorrow we diet.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them," A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house."
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
I am made all things to all men.
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.