Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

The ribboned gallons that rule us like beliefs rooted in single experiences.

I took you to that windy hill where stars on every side fall away

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Baseball has a funny way to tap you on the shoulder when you least expect it and tells you it's the end.

I don’t do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.

If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.

And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

I care what people who know me think of me.

...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.

I've often talked about that, and I've been asked that a couple of times and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show.