By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.

Build your self in the Holy Faith.

Your heartbeat is a lullaby that puts my loneliness to sleep.

Be careful of what you say and do in life, you never know who's watching.

Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.

Couldn't we even argue that it is because men are unequal that they have that much more need to be brothers?

I love to act, and I try to be challenged by what I do

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

For me, as far as friendship goes, I think you truly get out of it, what you put into it.

Being in business is not about making money. It is a way to become who you are.