When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Wickedness is like cart ropes.

I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

That was perfect. It was just the opposite from what I said yesterday.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

He wanted to work in Hot Woman Valhalla until he died of testosterone poisoning. (Nick)

Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.

People don't buy drills they buy holes