Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

My wish is to create a huge library of books.

Willful blindness sees no end of damage done.

Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get.

How bout you and all your morals in that outfit that you borrowed/Make the most out of tonight and worry bout it all tomorrow.

Happiness does not mean that everything works out. Usually nothing works out, but you get a kick out of it anyway.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human —” “THEN — I — DON’T — WANT — TO — BE — HUMAN!” Harry roared.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.