Fiction intended to please, should resemble truth as much as possible.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

William loathed his family, ' Mercer said. 'With cause.

Don't love anything that can be taken away.

Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

You must always remain master of the situation and do what you please. No school tasks, ah, no! no tasks!

What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.

Always act the part — and you can become whatever you wish to become!

Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

There's never a perfect bipartisan bill in the eyes of a partisan.