All grand thoughts come from the heart.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

The greatest duty of life is to find the ultimate purpose of life. The second greatest duty is to put a laser focus on it and take action.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but your words were always the hardest.

As long as there is love and memory, there is no true death, " - John Carstairs

life is fair, truth is faith

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

Our currency is what we are able to make.

If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.