The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.

None are so inconsiderate as those who demand nothing of life other than their own personal comfort.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Many think they have a kind heart who have only weak nerves.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

Calmness is the graceful form of Confidence.

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

Sometimes coping with the difficulties success brings is much more difficult than coping with the difficulties failure brings!

I am a beautiful thing, shaped for fighting.

It's so interesting that the romantic side of my life comes from my father, who I really didn't even know that well.

A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us.

A business owner can become rich exponentially and people who work for wages become rich incrementally.

No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.

Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.