If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

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.

Orion nodded, then asked, “Dwarf cheese?”“Cheese made by dwarfs.”“Oh, ” said Orion, relieved. “They make it. It’s not actually . . .”“No. What a horrible thought.”“Exactly.

I believe in life.

I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet.

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

Caffeine dehydrates the body and speeds up the aging of the skin and kidneys.

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.

I developed a reputation as a "hothead" because I got in the face of a lot of reporters and they thought I was just a hotheaded person. What they didn't understand was that I was motivated by love.

But you can’t live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you’re dead already.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.