If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

What to my Saviour shall I giveWho freely hath done this for me?I'll serve him here whilst I shall liveAnd Loue him to Eternity

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

That when we live no more, We may live ever

Somehow human authority is never enough

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.

You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.

Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

Just because I tread heavily on propriety's toes doesn't mean I can't play the game when it's of use to me.

New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.