How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another

Most parents don't know really their children.

The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.

I’m a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.

I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

I don't know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.