Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.

How did he close off that part of his brain that tells someone they've harmed another soul?...Most frighteningly of all, are some of us born with no conscience at all?

One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.

Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.

I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.

If you are alive and healty, you must know that this is your greatest success and your greatest chance in life! Celebrate this success with all your heart, with all your gratitude!

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad.

Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew.

We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.