The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Tears welled in his eyes. It was like watching chocolate melt.

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.

I wouldn't say I'm a political junkie. I follow it. I read a few articles every day.

I'm named after a computer and grew up really interested in them.

Promises retain men better than services; for hope is to them a chain, and gratitude a thread.

Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.

This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.

If they just reverse the division, ban the judges, and then it'll discourage other judges from ever doing this.

A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.