Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

Why you need a reason for everything? Reason is something people say to make sense of things that don't make sense.

He'd laugh in my face, then I'd slice him to ribbons and then he'd break my neck

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

Dad always says that I could sing before I could talk

The family is in flux, and signs of trouble are widespread. Expectations remain high. But realities are disturbing.