Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects a mere notice of the necessity for exertion ... a mere stimulus to men.

My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.

Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it.

God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us.

Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.

A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.

The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.

What is it about a baby bump that makes people feel it's okay to say things like, 'God! You are big!'

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.