The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

And you are going to be to the light of our kingdom. No one is going to hurt you.

With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon.

People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]

We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.

The pertinent question: if Americans did not want these wars should they have been compelled to fight them?

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth.

I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.

There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.