What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts

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.

When life gives you lemons, get rid of that grimace and use that pucker for a kiss!

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

In drawing, I often think of things as flying buttresses.

I am not an American. I am the American.

Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

No freedom without renunciation.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.