Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Angry issues need settling time.

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.

If you can't beat 'em in the alley, you can't beat 'em on the ice.

All in all is all we are.

He couldn't tell the difference between one politician and another. They were all formlessly enthusiastic chimpanzees to him.

There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

We're either nothing or a God's regret.

Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting.