Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

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.

Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

I’m convinced that there is nothing ​truly good. Hell, sunshine can wilt a flower.

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

Love preserves one moment for ever, the moment of its birth. The beloved never ages.

Total contentment is only for cows.

US worse off than before Saddam because US lost credibility.

The last decision I made was my health when I had a heart attack when I was 51.

Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.