Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

I am stronger than my trials.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

We have come here with a message of love and brotherhood.

Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it.

Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind