Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.

To be practical in life means to take everything seriously and nothing tragically.

It's not where you start or where you finish. It is the distance between the two.

According to the National Academy of Sciences, our current immigration system costs America's taxpayers many billions of dollars a year.

Colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give carte blanche to an assistant of his to declassify whatever he wants.

Consciousness will not always solve the problem, but it may make the suffering meaningful.