The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

To those who know thee not no words can paint! And those who know thee know all words are faint!

Human Nature is not a problem that can be fixed by rules and regulations. All solutions to the existing problems must be based on how people behave, not on how we think they should behave.

Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

No worthy problem is ever solved within the plane of its original conception.

I'm not the type of person who dwells too much on bad things.

That's the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name

Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.