We must not stand upon trifles.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

The first thing fading is your beautythe least trustworthy is your minddown here on this earthnothing's of any worth—in the end

You hold within you a system of values and beliefs

It is not easy to soothe the immortal gods from their vengeance.

Jim said he believed it was spirits, but I says: no, spirits wouldn't say "dern the dern fog".

All actors are my brothers and my sisters. It ain't cool to compare or disparage them. It ain't polite.

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.

My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.