When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

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.

Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience.

Greatness always inspires you to be great.

Sometimes singed wings will fly with greater purpose.

The question many have in the region is how not to squander the wealth like they did in the 1970s.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

So many things I'm not, and so few things I am.

Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.