A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

So that’s it? You’re just going to rescue me and go?

While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen

What is the use of fighting for a vote if we have not got a country to vote in?

While there is such a thing as correctness in ethics, in interpretation, in mathematics, the way to understand that is not by trying to model it on the ways in which we get things right in physics.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince.

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.