It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.
Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says, "I am coming".
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
The happy people are those who are producing something.
Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.
College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
The signs of the times.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.