The highest art is artlessness.

If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly, for if the devil hears, he will echo it many times.

How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!

Real merit requires as much labor, to be placed in a true light, as humbug to be elevated to an unworthy eminence; only the success of the false is temporary, that of the true, immortal.

The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.

There are some professed Christians who would gladly burn their enemies, but yet who forgive them merely because it is heaping coals of fire on their heads.

To write for a living, according to Mr. Whipple, is coquetting with starvation.

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is a better competition.

If you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job.

I've always wanted children... not of my own, but for yard work and reaching into tight places to get things I've dropped.

Our job is to help Iraq forces be better equipped, to help their police be able to deal with these extremists and to help their government succeed.

Money. It's a good servant but a bad master.

Almost all human who can form a sentence will eventually let you in on the fact that their lives are very difficult and sometimes very hard to manage.

In soft regions are born soft men.

If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.