As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

Good-humor is the clear blue sky of the soul.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea

Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.

My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key.

The Sabbath-day is the savings-bank of humanity.

The best practitioners give to their patients the least medicine.

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

Dean Swift proposed to tax beauty, and to leave every lady to rate her own charms; he said the tax would be cheerfully paid and very productive.

Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

He's exasperated. "I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

Be heroes in an army of construction.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

Now is the time for everyone who believes in the rule of reason to speak up against pathological science and its purveyors.

You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.