Every time a man smiles and much more when he laughs it adds something to his fragment of life.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.

My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.

Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

Like a flying bird you came into my life. Your love was the strength that let me take the plunge. I didn't think that I would ever be this way but you have changed all things for me.

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.

For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way.

When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it.

I probably take a pretty traditional view about hell. I'm not very contemporary in terms of that.

Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.