Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

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.

You smell wonderful, ” he told her. “So aroused.” “That's the bug spray, ” she said.

The storm before the calm.

You know I used to listen to music a lot more.

Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.

The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.

It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything.

The life-force may be the least understood force on earth.

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

dream is the dreamer's own psychical act.

Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you.