Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

My brother, " Will growled. "And your friend. You'd better not treat him the way you treat me.

One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow .... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it.

We will never be more than we are meant to be!

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death with was Augustus Waters.

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

If I'm reading something and a word pops up, or I just catch it, I try to mark it off and then, later, write it down on a piece of paper and add it to my list.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.