Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.

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.

It must be comforting, to have a faith like that. To believe so concretely that there’s someone—something— out there watching guard, keeping us safe, testing us only with what we can handle.

Who can give a man this, his own name?

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

Hillary Clinton's raising the money from the people she wants to control.

A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.

I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view of foreign policy going forward that learns from the past but doesn't get captured by it.

In Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison.