The king is the man who can.

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.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

Availability of knowledge is only next to prevalence of stupidity in its overwhelming abundance.

It's philanthropy, but it's good politics, too. Mighty good politics. The poor are some of the most grateful people in the world. George Washington Plunkett.

I seek a form of language which will express my ideas for our time.

I don't think I'm fixed. People think that you're like a car in a body shop. You go in, they fix you, and you're out. It takes constant fixing.

The chief business of the nation, as a nation, is the setting up of heroes, mainly bogus.

I've never particularly liked bankers.

We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.