Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

I have just put this to see how much people can think, how much just follow what I say without thinking... (Just Simple Psychology)

Life gives you ups and downs. If you remember only the downs, you are not living your life.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.

I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.

Hypebeasts want shoes just to say other people don't have them.

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.