Love sacrifices all things to bless the thing it loves.

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.

It is not only business to business sake but human to human sake.

The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

Here's a freebie: Don't play poker with a kid who can read minds.

I think the main thing that has to end is men's defensiveness.

The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope."