What is first love worth, except to prepare for a second? What does second love bring? Only regret for the first.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

The people will come to their own at last,-God is not mocked forever.

At my door the Pale Horse stands to carry me to unknown lands.

I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.

Help your fatherAs he ages And loses his strengthFor it was he who sheltered youAnd protected you from the stormsKhoiSan Book of Wisdom

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

If a guy can't handle you in sweatpants, than he doesn't deserve you in a wedding dress.

Just because we are dead does not make us smart.

Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

It's quite quick for me to know if I want to play a character or not.

It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!

You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I think he has a great story. He's bright. He's articulate.

The churches that are most obviously democratic are most obviously given to race prejudice. I mean the churches that have absolute congregational control.