Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

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.

Not only must we be good but we must also be good for something.

I have the nicest life in the world.

Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.

When we're in the water, we're not in this world.

I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

According to my assessment, even if you have many more troops than others, how can that help you to victory?

I'm as American as Chevrolet.

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.