A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

The man who marries a woman for her beauty will be deceived

Try not to be the kind of friend who only makes friends when in desperate need of financial help.

Our dreams wrapped in desire let us fly high enough to get the reward.

I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to worry about schedules and that kind of thing.

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

But now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love.

Irish as a Paddy's pig.

His scars were hidden and safe in her hand.

Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.