It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

You ought to thirst for the living water.

A life of prayer is a praise of being.

The suprematist must have a superior knowledge of understanding. With out that, their art is powerless

The world is a thing we must of necessity either laugh at or be angry at; if we laugh at it, they say we are proud; if we are angry at it, they say we are ill-natured.

True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.

Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.

For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.

He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can't let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.