Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.
Habit is a great deadener.
Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one . . . and got hit by a bus.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
Deep faith eliminates fear.
Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex and minus reason.
The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope.
How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies, no longer tameless then, To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!
Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
The covetous man is always poor.
We all have music inside us, and can learn how to get it out, one way or another.
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Every beginning is hard.
There has never been a war of Canadian origin, nor for a Canadian cause.
Never answer a letter while you are angry.
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
A stout heart breaks bad luck.