He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.

I don't need a cloak to become invisible.

When women go off together we call it separatism. When men go off together we call it Congress.

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

Encouraging children to live healthy lifestyles is something I take very seriously.

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

Labor: a powerful medicine.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.