The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

Infinity and Always.

After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

If we don't hang together, by Heavens we shall hang separately

It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

I am Dracula.... I bid you welcome.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

I feel just as hungry today as I did the day I left home.

..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.