Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together.

If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters?

Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.

Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd.

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

You have to know who to keep near you and those you should be far away from.

A #GIRLBOSS is someone who's in charge of her own life. She gets what she wants because she works for it.

Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

Practically anything you read or hear about racism, sexism, and homophobia is cant.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.

Imperfectios equal beauty. We are all imperfect.

The last thing they want is a revitalized economy now. I'm not saying the Democrats don't want a strong economy. Don't misunderstand. They just don't want it now.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.