Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective.

It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.

I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian.

It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.

A sad fact in life is that you cannot have winners without losers, no matter what you do, it's up to you to make out which one you are.

If you criticize others’ ideas, they will almost never use yours no matter how good they are.

Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny.

You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.

A friend had commented once that Neal had a gift for making someone want to punch him just for saying hello.