Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.

Black and white is as if phoenix of colors has eloped into opacity.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

There is magic everywhere around you, but most people are too busy being grownup to notice it.

By the time, another Disappointment reaches me ..... I'll buried!

Run, leap and celebrate for you are alive today!

The hammers must be swung in cadence, when more than one is hammering the iron.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.