His pride and her beauty had been in direct conflict, and his pride had remained the conqueror.

She looks very virtuous and very melancholy.""Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

Anonymity crowned him as if t'were the halo of romantic glory.

... you know my belief in bald-headed Fortune, with the one solitary hair. Well, I meant to grab that hair...

L'honneste est stable et permanent.

You have to be ill if you want to get better.

The greatest gift you can ever give is yourself.

Things do not change we change.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

Happiness comes through taming the mind; without taming the mind there is no way to be happy

The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.

Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.

We must keep ourselves busy with finding ways to generate wealth for generations to come and work to pass down things to our children for them to pass down to their children.