Any wife will save you from purgatory, and a diligent one will secure heaven to you.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress.

I never invite idiots to my house.

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

The only thing one can do one day one did not do the day before is to die.

The muses crown virtue when fortune refuses to do it.

The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.

I always wish to find great virtues where there are great talents, and to love what I admire.

Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.

Few people know anything of the English history but what they learn from Shakespear; for our story is rather a tissue of personal adventures and catastrophes than a series of political events.

You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.

Marcii hoped she was wrong, though she knew the odds were slim.Still, in the face of everything, there is always hope.

There is a glitch in the Matrix ("Real World")… Illusions is one of them.

It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.

The Washington Post said that 50% of the contributors of the Republican Party were Jewish and 70% of the Democratic Party. That's 2% and they control America.

You know, people are basically shitty

Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.

Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.

I was dying when you came.