All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.

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.

Wisdom comes easy to me today. The Universal Intelligence and the Cosmic Power, Empower me with wisdom each day of my life. Thanks BE to God. _nickc

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about.

I don't know much about kisses, but I can assure you that hers were no less fierce than a swarm of bullets tearing the air

How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable?

War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.

We in Purgatory sing fondly of Hell.

That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.

I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile.