Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

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.

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

Why is your skin the best feeling in the world?

This is actually something no one knows, but my mom was really the one who created the entire style for 'Teen Witch.' I'm dead serious.

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

You dirty, double-crossing rat.

The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.

"What is the greatest mistake a parent can make?" she asked. "To believe that your children will be just like you."

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

I don't like all this talking in the press.