To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.

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

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

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

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

We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.

All these mirrorscarnival distortionsof selves we never were.

If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.

I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.

It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.

Don't say that a loving God is going to send you to hell- He's not. The thing that's going to send you to hell is that you're a sinner and you don't want to admit it.

The poor we shall always have with us, but why the hungry?

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.