Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

... good teachers, like Tolstoy's happy families, are alike everywhere.

A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.

Methinks love maketh men like Angels.

Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed.

Ive never really been a big sci-fi guy or a big comic book guy.

Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.