A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

Almost everything a leader fails to achieve is anything he fails to try. What is not attempted is what is difficult to do.

If we repent, the Lord will forgive us.

Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.

It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

I don't spend much money on clothes I never did.

He had lost control over his own body, he realized dully.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them.