Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.

The foolish moments of the head are often the most wonderful times of the heart.

There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

The pain in your muscles and the sweat in your brow after doing a work the hard and honest way make you feel proud of yourself!

Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking And sweet.

People sometimes cling to the strangest beliefs. On the one hand, they believe in an all loving God, but on the other hand they believe He will give you cancer to test or mature you.

You are almost never cool to your children.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless.

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.

Either you pursue or push, O Sisyphus, the stone destined to keep rolling. [Lat., Aut petis aut urgues ruiturum, Sisyphe, saxum.]