At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

People of understanding, pursue peace.

The radiation detoxification process exists in nature. It is called: Hibernation.

No time for happiness, no time for sorrow. Work is the best of physicians.

The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.

Eve is a twofold mystery.

Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless.

The sun fades like the spreading Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight Might be read as a warning to those desperate For easy solutions.

I was struck by the joy of those pilots in committing coldblooded murder . . . Frankly, this is not cojones. This is cowardice.

Love doesn't suit the lazy; sometimes it requires strong, precise actions.

Our land passes in and out of our bodies just as our bodies pass in and out of our land