What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

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.

Sow the seeds of hard work and you will reap the fruits of success. Find something to do, do it with all your concentration. You will excel.

So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook?Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.

At that age, it's one of the worse things in the world to wake up and not see your bike where you left it.

If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been "Catch Me In Two Days."

evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

I do think one should have clean feet.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

A room without books is like a life without meaning.

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.