A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Actions lie louder than words.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Nonsense makes the heart grow fonder.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

What you are is God’s gift to you. What you can become is your gift to Him.

The eligibility for food stamps has widened and widened welfare has been widened - unemployment insurance and disability insurance. These are all incentives not to work.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Men are only as loyal as their options.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change.

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

I can't get it wrong.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.

We have got to use every opportunity to improve individually so we can improve collectively.