All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Mild arch of promise! on the evening sky Thou shinest fair with many a lovely ray, Each in the other melting.

There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.

Cupid "the little greatest god."

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

Let us depart! the universal sun Confines not to one land his blessed beams; Nor is man rooted, like a tree, whose seed, the winds on some ungenial soil have cast there, where it cannot prosper.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

Why are you sitting there watching/reading someone else's creation when you can be watching/reading your own creation instead Hustle!

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost.

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

The corporate facilities that we have here are as good as anywhere in Australia and the motorcycle people are certainly going to enjoy those.

My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.

I am the very model of a modern major general