To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

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.

The problem with freedom is that when people have it, they do what they want to.

One of the greatest threats to the impossible is the easily possible.

Everyone loves a dead artist. It’s the living ones that people can’t tolerate.

Nothing is as changeable as our own life.

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.

I think comedy is funnier when it's real.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.

Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.