There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Given enough time and distance, the heart will always heal.

The cost you will pay to achieve the goal is worthwhile.

A human being has no discernible character until he acts.

It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of orthodoxy and those who pursue what is comfortable to the rich.

I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.

A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.

Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.