I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.

Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

Adversity is an opportunity for heroism.

The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn't deserve the good and the bad things from his life.

You can not hear what you do not understand.

I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.