Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

A dog to vomit does turn, A fool to folly but return, The wise err and learn, Gaining from each burn.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.

Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.

Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?

Why should I care? I have all the money in the world.

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

We are in bondage to that which overcomes us. See also 2 Peter 2:19.

Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.

Passion is what you would do if you got to choose. It's what you think about doing in the privacy of your own mind, without ear of dismissal or mockery.