We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Only the right pain gets the right gain.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

If we're not in the debates there will be no real discussion of climate change, because Hillary Clinton's policy does not begin to address the threat.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

All right mister, let me tell you that winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.