The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

You don't need to put on make-up to make you look pretty. All you need to do is put on a smile and that will make you pretty in anyone's book.

Anything worthwhile is opposed.

Patriotism can results in racism

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

I don't know who said it, but it really kind of hit me hard in the stomach: "The only difference between all of us is that some of us were loved and some of us weren't."

Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.

The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there