Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

On the basis of this information, it would be possible to argue that if everybody spoke English (or Chinese or Esperanto for that matter) everybody would be at war even more often.

Yesterday was the last day on the calender of the past. Tomorrow will be the first day on the calender of the future. Today is both the first and the last day of the present. Use it well.

Perhaps that is the only cure for jealousy, to realize that the people we resent and envy for having what we lack, probably have woundsand scars of their own. They may even be envying us.

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

What will increase one person's personal power will not necessarily be the same for another.

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it.

It's a little dangerous to be a badass.

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.