Charity is the note that resolves the discord.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Love has no monetary value, but without love, life has no value.

Of course, some might argue that one can never know what's in the heart of a woman— For they are strange and mysterious creatures, and a man must be a mind reader if he ever wishes to make them happy.

Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.

Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?

We aren't comfortable. We are not satisfied. We have to stay even-keeled.

Words are the counters of wise men, but the money of fools.

If you have to be the antagonist, you often have a lot more creative powers. You have a lot more color to you.