Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

Poker is war. People pretend it is a game."~Doyle Brunson

Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire.

The easiest way to have a peek behind the curtain is to learn from those that are ahead of you.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.

My dad was a [Theodor] Roosevelt Democrat.

He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford

Curiosity is the other side of caution.