In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.

You become a man when you give your family the best of who you are.

I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt.But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.

It's not a war on drugs, it's a war on personal freedom.

You can't fake community, you can't force it, either.

When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you need to know.'

Clothes make the body both mysterious and historical.

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

There's no such thing as a bad day when you have a doorknob on the inside of the door.

I have sounded the very base-string of humility.