Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

Old friends are best.

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.

They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

A gallant man is above ill words.

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

The inspiration for my illusions comes from many places. Most often they come from my dreams, or an everyday occurrence in life.

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

I've spent 30 years, actually maybe a little more, working to help kids and families. And I want to take all that experience to the White House and do that every single day.

Curran struck at my wrist. His fingers were cat-quick, but I had spent my life honing my reflexes, and he missed. “Well, look at that.” I studied my free wrist. “Denied. Good-bye

There's no way I can go play for the Yankees.

I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose.

You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is.

I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields