Let us lend cheerfully, for the time is pretty sure to come when we will wish to borrow.

We can all be heroes in our virtues, in our homes, in our lives.

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

Style in painting is the same as in writing,-a power over materials, whether words or colors.

A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

Twilight is like death; the dark portal of night comes upon us, to open again in the glorious morning of immortality.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

When you’re young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old … you wish for things from the past

Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison.

Fundamentally, people are suckers for the truth.

Hopefully before I'm done, I can be on an Olympic team.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

Dad, would the love end just because a person dies?

Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.

A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.

Fear based parenting is the surest way to create intimidated children.

The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts