When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

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.

I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side.

I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.

A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

As extended as you know most males are like young children, you understand all the things.

My cell phone bill and my cable gets cut off all the time. Not because I don't have the money, but because I just forget to pay my bills.

Faith in Christ is not an exercise of the understanding merely; it is an affection of the heart. "With the heart man believeth." To those who believe Christ is precious.

You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.

There's a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are.

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.