We are all as God made us and frequently much worse.

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

True art is a remedy of curiousity and it rise above all expectations.

Affliction caused by the tongue is worse than that caused by the strike of the blade of a sword.

We may find great relief and inexplicable solace in purposefully looking beyond grief in order to determine the provision made within it.

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

Since age 14, I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there.

Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don't do it for anyone else.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

Where words prevail not, violence prevails.

This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal