Women of the world crave excitement.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

The paths carved by the divine carpenter into her palms are actually treasure maps showing the way to heaven.

The saying goes that for a wound caused by dog bite to heal you have to eat that same dog, and I did scoop up a mouthful for myself

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.

I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

Their experiments caused them to destabilize the structure of the continent and thus Atlantis sank beneath the waves.

A truly educated man never ceases to learn.

Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves