There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.

Brotherly love is the bond of brotherhood.

The rape of justice anywhere, violates justice everywhere

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men I will find something in them which will hang him.

When women are excited about a date, they go immediately on a diet, because all women know they are hideously obese.

Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find

Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.

In the past, no one paid any serious attention, even to the existing laws that protect animals.

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

- Just do you know, Lenny this isn't a date. - Then what is it? - It's me falling sorry for you, because you're such a loser.

For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.