He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.

When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.

The sarcasm made a slight whistling noise as it flew over Loafers' head.

I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.

Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.

The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.

What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

Desegregation is a joke.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

My biggest fear in life is fear.

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me.

Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.