No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.

No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.

Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Be not solitary, be not idle

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

If you like not my writing, go read something else.

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

I tend the flowers of my mindWatering our memories as they bloom

Your reputation has no duplicate. You are one till the end of time. Once it is damaged, a fresh personality cannot spring from the old one.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.

I grew up in a very suburban neighborhood, so I was used to everything being safe and lovely.

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.