Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.

Good things quickly become habitual and we often stop valuing them.

When I will be a billionaire, I will fill the smile on these crying face.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

Lying rides upon debt's back.

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

Anyway, if you needed something really dangerous, get a gun. It's easy, it's cheap, and it's the American way.

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

I like to involve myself in charities that help children and also young women in need.

Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.