I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.

Beauty is a mute deception.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences guide us to wisdom.

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

There is another alphabet Whispering from every leaf, Singing from every river, Shimmering from every sky.

You can't do it all. No one can have two full-time jobs, have perfect children and cook three meals and be multi-orgasmic 'til dawn ... Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

If you just want to make stuff and put it out there so people can see that, great. Do that. Nothing is ever going to stop you.

The goals made such a difference to the way this game went

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.

The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

I think even in American schools, they must be studying in a specialized manner.