Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Be according to your possibility.

The past, the present and the future - none of those are set. We know that now. They change as we change.

To vanish with the infinite, I am floating with the waves of change in the ocean of time.

'Insanity... I like it."

What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

When you know yourself you are surprised that what is the greatest thing for you is to love and to be loved.

On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.

It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes.

I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year.