Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Then I’ll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

I’m not a bloody cockroach. What’s all this about? What are you trying to find out?

A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to trust savingly in a Divine object.

You say something bad about Newsies and you have an awful lot of people to answer to.

But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.

Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders

Think. Learn. Act. The more you know, the better and more educated choices you have the opportunity to make.

Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.