Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Revenge is a bad policy if you gain nothing out of it, but under the same circumstances, forgiveness is even a worse one.

Knowing what environments are a good fit requires a person to know about themselves, in other words, to have self-awareness.

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

.."I don't even know her yet..but if she could see me right now, I'd want her to know that I love her.." ~E.L.~

In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

Now I know that I don't have to go after every batter with the hardest pitch I've got.

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.

The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.