When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

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.

Hades is evolved to the highest state of simplicity.

If wishes were horses, " she murmured, "beggars would ride.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

The principle question before us is not, do we comprehend the atonement, but, do we accept it.

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.

The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.

Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!

Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside.