Philosophy has a fine saying for everything - for Death it has an entire set.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

I hope your only rocky road is chocolate.

I can cook a little bit but pretty much when I get back from practice I am pretty tired that I just order out.

Those who labor unselfishly in behalf of others, with no thought of remuneration, will be physically and spiritually refreshed and renewed.

I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly. ... we tickle ourselves in order to laugh; to so low an ebb are we reduced.

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

No excuses. No explanations.