If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on."-Allison

Sometimes you have to know what you're willing to sacrifice to be the person you are meant to be.

If we had the chance to live forever, life would lose its charm for something better.

Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything.

In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.

The quality of life, which in the ardour of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer.

Puttin rhymes into shape just like Jack LaLanne.

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person’s job.

Because I can't handle the nightmares. Not without you.