They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

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.

A joke is a very serious thing.

I'm not letting you -- us -- go that easily, sweetheart, so get used to having me in your life.

When you judge others you reveal your inability to see them through God's eyes.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

There's estrogen running through my veins!

In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon faith.

The only thing we are sure to fail is that which we do not attempt