The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

The virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Everybody has his own theatre, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

The business of philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

By the ancients, courage was regarded as practically the main part of virtue; by us, though I hope we are not less brave, purity is so regarded now.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of heaven are upon it.

Do not give your most cherish dreams.Dreams are scriptures.Dreams are possibilities.Dreams always come true.

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly enthusiastically unremittingly woo her.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.

I tell the most horrible jokes.

When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.

We cannot enslave others without enslaving a part of ourselves.

I visualize the game. I think about who I am guarding, the things he likes to do.

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.